On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:03:03 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:


The fact is that the media are determined to every problem in to a
disaster. If there is a disaster then criticism will be fair. A minor
problem or a teething problem is not worthy of being turned in to a
disaster in and of itself. The key is that any lessons are learned
and done so quickly. It is not going to be perfect - that's
impossible.

If we have 2 months worth of today's inaccurate reporting we'll all be
in the nuthouse at the end of it.

I think there's a lot of both UK and foreign media all poised to
report an abundance of Olympic news, but somewhat short of real
stories to report so far, so they pounce on anything they find.
Presumably the foreign reporters are trying to provide background info
about Britain (cold, wet, bad traffic, high prices, bad food, etc),
while UK reporters report on what affects them personally (getting
around London).